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HaLaBi

23:00

@Ansari thanks for correcting the hadeeth

Ansari

no problem - @Ershad did so as well mashaAllah :)

let's try to be as precise as we can bi idhnillah

NesreenA

i was packing earlier and chatting at the same time!

Ansari

@NesreenA I think we've established that you are awesome

mashaAllah :)

HaLaBi

@NesreenA I am honored. my best and closest friends are palestenitan. from Ghazza, I even speak ghazzawi accent perfectly

NesreenA

thanks!

im from the west bank

HaLaBi

23:01

والنعم

NesreenA

bahki ma3 il chaff

HaLaBi

Ladies are quad core.. they can achieve multiple tasks at once.. unlike men.. or atleast me.. one task at a time!

مافهمتك يانسرين

guys.. do u think it is a good idea to make question about the physical-spiritual islam?

Ershad

@NesreenA I concur with Ansari. I didnt have half of wisdom/knowledge about religion as you when I was your age

NesreenA

lamma bakool "kursee" or chair binkool "chirsee

with a cha

its all because of school

Ershad

Well, @HaLaBi I do not differentiate physical spiritual

HaLaBi

23:03

oh ya.. ahl aldheffa ye7ko hek

Ershad

@NesreenA That is actually awesome considering you are in west

HaLaBi

thats the correct thing @Ershad, but i am seeing more people who are more into physical islam.. not spiritual..

NesreenA

@Ershad thanks

they dont do it in ramallah or jerusalem

HaLaBi

Alquds you mean...

Ansari

don't do what there?

HaLaBi

23:05

pronounce the K as ch in arabic..

NesreenA

speak with a cha sound

HaLaBi

not all words.. but selected words... same as people from Dar3a in Syria... and from some parts in Jordan..

NesreenA

i think its stupid but if i speak with an older lady with a "k" she will think im trying to show im better than her or im trying to erase some culture

HaLaBi

yes. exactly.. i got what you mean

Ershad

Alright people, I gotta go .. Assalamu Alaikkum wa rahmatullah. It was good talking to you all.

NesreenA

23:07

wa3alakum isalam

goldPseudo

yeah, i'm Canadian. never really been out of the country.

HaLaBi

I was born in Medinah.. we have a special accent there.. I have to use it when I speak to old people from medinah.. or I will get that lovely comments..

goldPseudo

(unless you count cross-border shopping back when i was a baby.)

HaLaBi

wa3alykum assalam ershad.. god bless you

NesreenA

where did you cross the border? america?

HaLaBi

23:08

@goldPseudo I would love to meet you if you ever come to Hajj or Umrah.

goldPseudo

God willing. it's expensive to travel that far from here though :(

NesreenA

someone here lives 15 minutes away from me.... assuming the information is corect

goldPseudo

@nesreenA It's Canada. how many borders do you think we have? :p

cross-border from BC to Washington, I believe.

HaLaBi

lol

NesreenA

haha yeah if it were me i wouldbe going the other way!

goldPseudo

23:10

can't remember if Idaho is even accessible from BC or not.

NesreenA

oh i checked who is was, its ashes666

HaLaBi

When I was young.. I wanted to live in Canada,, so i can learn french and english at once..

NesreenA

i go to the mall in his/her city all the time

i saw in a documentry that they dont lock there doors there

Ansari

i'm pretty sure ashes is not palestinian

NesreenA

im in amrica ;0

Ansari

23:11

i think you're talking about Dynamic perhaps

ah then he's not here either ;)

NesreenA

ashes999, Ontario, CA

1.4k 1 18

i live in california

Ansari

that's canada :)

(for ashes)

NesreenA

are you sure?

goldPseudo

we definitely have an Ontario in Canada.

Ansari

yes actually

NesreenA

23:13

NesreenA, rialto,Ca

329 8

marriage praying prophet-muhammad sharia sin-or-not wife women

HaLaBi

CA is California...

NesreenA

mine says CA too

Ansari

yup

NesreenA

we have ontario too

Ansari

@goldPseudo - i think pretty much every name is taken by some city in the US :)

from lebanon to medinah to paris to dublin to ontario

NesreenA

23:14

Kaveh, Toronto, Canada

408 9

arabic quran reciting sadaqah sahih salat scientific-proof

canada says cananda

not CA

Ansari

oh it depends on how you put it

CA is the country code for canada

ashes actually runs deengames

so i know for a fact he's in the greater toronto area

NesreenA

@Ansari even palestine is a city in tenneseee

Ansari

haha exactly

hebron too

NesreenA

ohhh that makes sence

sense

rialto is a city in france

Ansari

lol of course it is

it would be surprising if it wasn't :P

NesreenA

23:17

some cities here are named after people

or just nice names like bloomington or springfeild

Ansari

yeah in canada it's always like king this and queen that and prince this

well not always

but waay more than here

HaLaBi

Canada is a commonwealth country?? right?

goldPseudo

we've got that whole royalty thing to deal with, yeah.

HaLaBi

Thats why it has queen this and king that..

NesreenA

so does new york they call seperate sections like that

HaLaBi

23:20

Guys, have a great day/night... I have some coding.. salam alaykum

NesreenA

what time is it by everyone

goldPseudo

wa 'alaykum assalaam

17:20 here.

NesreenA

salam

whats that?

5:20?

goldPseudo

ayup

Ansari

6:20 here

HaLaBi

23:21

its 2:20 A.M in Saudi Arabia..

NesreenA

only one hour difference

HaLaBi

So I am in tomorrow for you ;)

NesreenA

4:20 here

Ansari

mashaAllah @HaLaBi up for qiyam

may Allah accept

goldPseudo

I'm just in the prairies. not that far (horizontally) from California.

HaLaBi

23:22

unfortunately No.. I had a long day today. I cam home.. my wife and my kid are at her country for a visit.. and I am all alone.. so i slept the whole day and woke up some time ago!!! bad

Ansari

ah well, there is still some part of the night left :)

NesreenA

its cool how the website is always running since everyone is from somowhere else

HaLaBi

Yes inshallah I will make wudhu now and pray... i will pray for you guys.. and I will as usual pray that I live till the day palestine is freed..

Actually here is a nice info...

Adhan (Azan) is there 24 hours...

Ansari

ameen ya @HaLaBi - Allahumma taqabbal minka

NesreenA

thanks for the prayer!

HaLaBi

23:25

4 minutes between every longitude and the other.. azan takes 5 minutes in average.. so there must azan somewhere during the 24 hours.. subhan allah

NesreenA

do you guys pray witr with your qiyam i told my mom i do and she looked at me and said where did you get that from

HaLaBi

:)

NesreenA

subahan allah!

they have a theory im an extremist! so i always have to come up with proof with things i do

HaLaBi

God bless you

NesreenA

you too

Ansari

23:28

http://sunnah.com/urn/216390
http://sunnah.com/urn/216130

in fact, so many here: sunnah.com/search/witr-qiyam

NesreenA

i saw a hadeeth that you should only pray witr with i3sha if you dont wake up for qiyam so i was like its not only acceptable to do it its encouraged too!

Ansari

it's almost midnight zulu time - new day for @Ershad to earn his rep cap! :) mashaAllah

yes i remember a hadith like that as well

NesreenA

but thats just how my family is they see they arent as religous as me and call me an extremist to justify their action

instead of joining me they try to think im wrong

Ansari

yes subhanallah i suspect a lot of us are in that boat

NesreenA

í know im right!

Ansari

23:31

but at the same time, we should see it as another opportunity to be humble

and not necessarily think we're ahead

or better

or more religious

NesreenA

i dont tll them i am

i dont act like it either

Ansari

of course not

i meant in our own hearts as well :)

(not saying that you do)

shaytan creeps up from all angles

NesreenA

id still perfer if they join me

Ansari

indeed - may that day come soon inshaAllah

NesreenA

somtimes they try to convince me not to

Ansari

23:34

i'm curious now though, if not from your family, and you're homeschooled - where do you acquire 'ilm from?

NesreenA

like when i wore the 3abaa they said im still young!

INTERNET!

i love the internet

Ansari

hahaha

mashaAllah

NesreenA

bukahri, lectures, quran, youtube

Ansari

well

NesreenA

forums

like this one

Ansari

23:35

cool mashaAllah

you seem to have it figured out

goldPseudo

the internet is awesome for knowledge, as long as you're capable of telling what's good from what's drek.

Al Ummat

I find it good to when you find knowledge and they have citations, to check them

NesreenA

gtg pray and then help make dinner salam alekum

Ansari

from someone just a little bit older than you - make sure to keep track of authenticity, and remember that it doesn't substitute for knowledge learned from scholars, but it does make you literate inshaAllah

there's a lot you don't learn on the internet

Al Ummat

@NesreenA wa aalikum salaam

NesreenA

23:36

thanks for watching out ill keep that in mind

Ansari

ok inshaAllah - wa'alaikum ussalam warahmatullah

goldPseudo

it's too easy to just read everything on answering-islam or something and think "Hey, this is Islam!"

Ansari

she sounds sophisticated enough to figure out sources mashaAllah

goldPseudo

no matter how sophisticated you are, it's still easy to be swayed by people taking words from their rightful places if you're not careful.

Ansari

totally agree

which is why in general i'm wary of "the internet" as a source of knowledge

unless of course it's just the medium to learn from people i actually know

anyhoo

what's the State of the Site now

seems like no real influx of users

although i did see a few new names

goldPseudo

23:40

we're getting new content, so that's good. word of mouth takes a while to kick in.

Ansari

question activity is holding

goldPseudo

charts on how our visitors per day are changing over time would be nice.

but that's just because i like charts.

Ansari

heh yeah

goldPseudo

up to 30 avid users now.

Al Ummat

Alhamdulillah, but we need more :)

but that will come with time

goldPseudo

23:44

God willing.

five 1k+ users as well.

question quality is generally improving.

answers too.

i haven't actually seen much worth downvoting these last couple days.

(a lot of bad English, but that can be fixed with edits)

today alone, 20 questions were asked.

(assuming by "today" I mean "over the last twenty-four hours")

Ansari

that's nice mashaAllah

Al Ummat

Alhamdulillah

You know I was thinking of ways of getting a lot of activity to the site

well..

I was looking at the chat rooms, and found that they can make events

so I was thining that we can setup an event to get activity for the site

what do you guys think?

goldPseudo

23:59

events could be nice. get enough knowledgeable people involved, we could easily do a regular halaqa or something.

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